Windsor.

Windsor, Conn a town of 28000 had the same paper puzzles many municipalities face. Stacks of documents piled onward people's desks and town workers searched for minutes from long-forgotten council meetings. As drawn out as all those minutes, legal opinions, and other official documents were onward paper, there was always the possibility of them being misplaced or damaged.

if it were not that recently, Windsor entered its paper-based documents into a computer When it decided to undertake this shoot forward the town did not hire an expensive outside consultant or hire extra workers, and no single worked overtime, yet the proces took les than six month

Windsor purchased a ScanJet IIcx from Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, Calif., to change its documents directly from paper into computer files.

"Some of these documents were fine old," says Gary Dowgewicz, a member of the town's information services team. "Now we can access those documents without